Just let me love you

Episode 15-2 | Our Past Pages

Our Old Pages_ The First Story

[This is a story about the past of the female protagonist and Taehyung:) You can read it lightly_ It will also be published occasionally between episodes!]

"Guys, you worked hard preparing for this mock exam."

"But you all know that this is where the real story begins, right?"

Every time I heard the teacher give me the medicine and then the bottle, I could hear the students' voices mixed with sighs and jeers from all over.

"I worked hard at school too,"

"Don't come to school and fall asleep."

"Have a nice snack today and go home"

차여주

···yes-

After all the students, including me, had no choice but to answer the teacher's words,

"Wow, crazy."

After fixing their gaze on the colorful food placed on the table, everyone sits down and fights over who gets to eat the chicken legs.

Of course, there are children who don't fall into that category.

For example, still fixing your eyes on the workbook and solving problems, or sitting blankly without thinking.

차여주

······Should I go home?

I was the latter. I've never been one to prefer being around people in the first place.

Have you been experiencing internal conflict like that for a while?

김태형

······.

I met your eyes as you sat quietly in your seat, as if you were in the same situation as me.

To be exact, the moment you made eye contact with me, you slung your backpack crookedly over one shoulder and leisurely left this place.

차여주

······.

As if possessed by something, I also got up from my seat.

"Cha Yeo-ju, where are you going?"

As soon as I put my backpack on my arm, my friend grabbed me.

차여주

Ah... I think I'll go home early today.

"But I'll eat it and go..."

차여주

I'm tired... haha

"Well then, there's nothing I can do about it"

"Anyway, go in safely - and get some rest."

I was the one who avoided that situation so well that it didn't matter.

I said hello to the teachers without thinking and came out, and immediately put on my heavy school bag.

I wonder if it wasn't inspected, but the dim, flickering streetlights were particularly annoying.

Standing underneath it,

김태형

······.

차여주

uh···,

The kid I just met.

Maybe it was curiosity that made me approach it.

차여주

excuse me···.

김태형

···yes.

차여주

······uh···,

I was a little flustered because you answered right away.

It wasn't long before I saw the school uniforms I used to see everywhere - that is, our school uniforms - and the color of the first-year name tags, and I felt relieved.

차여주

...Why aren't you going in and are you here...?

I should say that I felt a sense of inexplicable familiarity.

김태형

...What about that senior?

Rather, what came back was a counter-question.

차여주

I am_

차여주

I saw you coming out and followed you.

김태형

···why?

차여주

No, I wanted to come out too.

김태형

······.

김태형

Because I don't know anyone.

김태형

···I'm not the type of person who tries to force myself to meet people.

차여주

So you continued to walk alone?

Naturally, I stood next to you, leaning my back against the alley wall.

김태형

yes

차여주

Aren't you bored when you're alone?

차여주

I guess that's what I would do...

김태형

...I wasn't saying I don't have any friends.

차여주

I never said I didn't have any friends.

After that brief silence

···

김태형

···he

A smile spread across your lips, as if melting for a moment, on your face that was so cold it seemed as if it couldn't even show a smile.

When I saw you like that, even I laughed.

김태형

···this.

For a moment, you were the one who offered me something.

The identity of something is,

차여주

···Suddenly chocolate milk...?

A chocolate milk carton with a straw attached.

김태형

You couldn't eat chicken because of me.

차여주

...I told you it wasn't because of you?

김태형

Then give it back to me.

차여주

That won't work.

I twisted my body with all my might to hide the chocolate milk.

차여주

Giving and taking is fatal, isn't it?

You were the one who kept bursting out laughing when you saw me.

차여주

Why are you laughing?

김태형

Because it's funny.

차여주

···tooth,

I couldn't understand you at all.

No, I didn't understand the situation itself.

차여주

Do you want to go out with me?

김태형

···Where?

차여주

The academy.

김태형

······yes?

차여주

If you don't like it, then don't do it.

차여주

We just stopped here...

김태형

Oh, no.

김태형

You haven't answered yet.

The fact that we can be honest with each other without any pretense when we are talking to each other for the first time.

김태형

Let's go together.

The fact that we can have a casual conversation as if nothing happened.

It was quite meaningful to me.

Our first meeting ended right here.

The relationship must have started at an appropriate pace, neither too early nor too late.

Small, with a little laughter.